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On September 21 2015 06:44 Jormundr wrote:
Nah, radical muslim candidate would easily fit in with the republican party. They could call him Bibi 2.0. Or Sheikh Santorum.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said in an interview with a U.S. television network that aired on Sunday that Tehran and Washington "have taken the first steps" toward decreasing their enmity due to a landmark nuclear accord.

But Rouhani told CBS' "60 Minutes" program that despite the nuclear agreement, "the distance, the disagreements, the lack of trust, will not go away soon."

The weekly chant of "Death to America" in Iran "is not a slogan against the American people," Rouhani added.

"The policies of the United States have been against the national interests of Iranian people," he said. "We cannot forget the past, but at the same time our gaze must be toward the future."

On September 21 2015 09:09 Plansix wrote:
If you listen to the interview on NPR, the guy says its very difficult to convince his people that we are not going to bomb them when we say we totally willing to bomb them every week. His quote was something like "What good is it to say the military option isn't off the table every week? Stop talking and get it over with or don't."

I don't trust Iran, but I understand how hard it is going to be to get their general public to not assume we are out to get them.

Party unity started to sound more like party mutiny during the Democratic state convention in Manchester, New Hampshire, on Saturday.

Attendees heckled the DNC chairwoman, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, chanting "We want debates!" until the Florida lawmaker eventually went off-script to respond.

"What's more important, drawing a contrast with Republicans, or arguing about debates?" Wasserman Schultz said. "Let's focus on our mission at hand. Let's focus on our task at hand."

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is among the party members who think Democrats should hold more than the scheduled six primary debates, the first of which won't take place until October.

By contrast, the Republicans are already two debates into the more than 10 they have scheduled. Both events have dominated the ratings, the news cycle and, as some Democrats worry, voters' attention.

"The Republicans are getting all the press right now and we have more than one candidate," Jane Schirch, an undecided New Hampshire Democrat, told CNN. "We have more legitimate candidates than the entertainment that the Republicans are providing."

The New Hampshire convention protests put Wasserman Schultz once again on the defensive over the party's debate plan, which includes penalizing any candidate who participates in outside debates.

On September 21 2015 06:43 Plansix wrote:
Tax payer supported agency that handles issues involving women's health, which a very TINY part is abortions. And those abortions are handled in the same fashion as the rest of the medical industry.

If the PP had said they cremated all the remains from any abortion, the Republicans would be flipping their shit because they "burned the bodies of babies." They want to bitch about abortions and they found a venue. And the "perceived onslaughts" is a good term for the people whining that they can't be bigoted store owners any more and refuse to serve gay couples.

On September 21 2015 09:09 Plansix wrote:
If you listen to the interview on NPR, the guy says its very difficult to convince his people that we are not going to bomb them when we say we totally willing to bomb them every week. His quote was something like "What good is it to say the military option isn't off the table every week? Stop talking and get it over with or don't."

I don't trust Iran, but I understand how hard it is going to be to get their general public to not assume we are out to get them.

On September 21 2015 09:51 Danglars wrote:
More than 300,000 abortions yearly is hardly a blip in the overall U.S. abortion industry. The alleged corruption and lawbreaking, and the various funding positions, are indeed an issue. If you have a religious attachment to their particular administration of all aspects of women's healthcare, please share. I'm starting to grasp your attitude of whistleblowers-be-damned: they do a lot of good therefore the good outweighs the bad.

It's hardly newsworthy that thread liberals still dismiss religious conscience objections breezily. I can hardly suppose anybody reading the news still expects liberals to defend the reviled religions with the same fervor of atheist/agnostics and sexual nonconformists.

Scrambling to address a growing Syrian refugee crisis, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry announced Sunday that the United States would significantly increase the number of worldwide refugees it takes in over the next two years, though not by nearly the amount many activists and former officials have urged.

The U.S. will accept 85,000 refugees from around the world next year, up from 70,000, and that total would rise to 100,000 in 2017, Kerry said at a news conference with German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier after the two discussed the mass migration of Syrians fleeing their civil war.

Many, though not all, of the additional refugees would be Syrian, American officials have said. Others would come from countries in Africa that are affected by conflict. The White House had previously announced it intended to take in 10,000 additional Syrian refugees over the next year.

Asked why the U.S. couldn't take more, Kerry cited post-Sept. 11 screening requirements and a lack of money made available by Congress.

"We're doing what we know we can manage immediately," he said, adding that the U.S. cannot take shortcuts on security checks.

Conditions in Syria have been growing increasingly dire as the civil war continues. As many as 9 million people have been displaced, including more than 4 million who have fled the country, according to the United Nations.

A letter made public last week and signed by several former Obama administration officials urged the U.S. government to accept 100,000 Syrian migrants, and to put in place special rules to speed the resettlement process. Germany says it will accept as many as a million Syrians this year.

On September 21 2015 10:13 Gorsameth wrote:

Maybe someone can explain this for me.
Why do Democrats want a circus like the Republicans are having right now?

The Elections are so far off that media attention now is mostly useless. No one will remember it by the end of the year and the more debates you have the more damage potential you have. Do Democrats look at the debates and thing "you know, our candidates don't have enough chance to destroy their electability"

Does the argument that Republicans have more news time really matter when the flood of national campaigns is still to come?

Madison (WKOW) -- A new national poll shows Governor Scott Walker polling at 0 percent in the race for the Republican presidential nomination.

The CNN/ORC poll released Sunday shows there were five candidates who received less than one percent of support from likely Republican voters. Walker was among them, joined by former Virginia Governor Jim Gilmore, South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, and former New York Governor George Pataki. Less than one percent equates to zero percent, statistically.

On September 21 2015 10:13 Gorsameth wrote:

Maybe someone can explain this for me.
Why do Democrats want a circus like the Republicans are having right now?

The Elections are so far off that media attention now is mostly useless. No one will remember it by the end of the year and the more debates you have the more damage potential you have. Do Democrats look at the debates and thing "you know, our candidates don't have enough chance to destroy their electability"

Does the argument that Republicans have more news time really matter when the flood of national campaigns is still to come?

On September 21 2015 06:44 IgnE wrote:
I don't think it's possible to be "much worse than Huckabee." It's like being in the 8th circle of hell. Yeah, technically you could be in the 9th circle, reserved for people like Cain who killed his own brother Abel, but that's as far as you can go.

On September 21 2015 09:51 Danglars wrote:
More than 300,000 abortions yearly is hardly a blip in the overall U.S. abortion industry. The alleged corruption and lawbreaking, and the various funding positions, are indeed an issue. If you have a religious attachment to their particular administration of all aspects of women's healthcare, please share. I'm starting to grasp your attitude of whistleblowers-be-damned: they do a lot of good therefore the good outweighs the bad.

It's hardly newsworthy that thread liberals still dismiss religious conscience objections breezily. I can hardly suppose anybody reading the news still expects liberals to defend the reviled religions with the same fervor of atheist/agnostics and sexual nonconformists.